Is music just entertainment? Not exactly. For us young people it is everything and accompanies many moments of our day. In the morning, MP3 headphones in our ears and off to school while our favorite music puts us in a good mood and energizes us to face the school hours. There is no longer a specific moment to stop and listen to it, today music is the soundtrack of our life. Music pleases, amuses, makes you dream, comforts and is one of the first things we learn to appreciate; the child complaining with his own voice, listens to his first music, rejoices and lays the foundation for learning to speak. Beethoven said that music is a deeper revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Whoever penetrates the meaning of music will be able to free himself from all the miseries into which other men drag themselves. Music communicates messages to us, makes us feel emotions, involves us, helps us when we feel sad and makes us reflect on life; it takes care of us but at the same time with notes full of sad emotions it can grieve us and recall unpleasant memories. Music is what we want it to be: life, love, anger, strength, joy, happiness… and everything and nothing. For us young people it is a medicine without side effects because it relaxes us when we have anxiety crises and helps us to concentrate when we are unable to study. Often we young people use music as a method to escape from our standard of life; we look for an unreal world in music to escape suffering, difficulties and problems. We take refuge in music because it offers us an inviolable shelter where hostile society cannot penetrate. Music becomes a home, our home where we can freely enter and leave. That’s why it is said that we young people don’t live music but we live it. In recent years, the reason why the relationship between young people and music has become increasingly close is that the songs of our time reflect everyday life with its problems, disappointments and hopes, in an ever more realistic way. We young people, listening to the songs, find points in common between the subject of the text and our life and we feel understood, consoled by the fact that we were not the only ones to have an unpleasant experience. Music, moreover, through songs also fulfills an important social function as it becomes a messenger of peace and supporter of humanitarian initiatives. For everyone, music is a silent friend who is always ready to give you a hand without asking for anything in return.
Motalli Sophia Giulia 3AL
